The Rise and Fall of Social Cohesion: The Construction and De-construction of Social Trust in the US UK, Sweden and...
- ISBN-10
- 0191761680
- ISBN-13
- 9780191761683
- Category
- Class consciousness
- Pages
- 262
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Author
- Christian Albrekt Larsen
Description
This volume explores the ways in which social cohesion can be established and undermined. It examines the US and UK, where social cohesion declined in the latter part of the 20th century and Sweden and Denmark, where social cohesion increased, and puts forward a social constructivist explanation for this shift.
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- 2013-06-20
- 262 pages
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- Oxford University Press
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